7.2/10470 votes#1 - Means to an End
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/29/2018
After years in solitary confinement, James Robertson admits to murdering his new cellmate as an escape to the better conditions on death row.
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7.3/10354 votes#2 - Killer in the Eyes of the Law
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/5/2018
Kenneth Foster's death sentence is commuted just hours before his execution, but he asserts that his punishment under an unusual Texas law is unfair.
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7.1/10188 votes#3 - The Mockingbird
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/12/2018
Raised in an environment of drug addiction and crime, teenager Justin Dickens commits murder but disputes the prosecutor's version of events.
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7.5/10332 votes#4 - Sympathy for the Devil
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/19/2018
Sentenced for a triple murder linked by police to Satanism, Miguel Angel Martinez becomes the youngest person ever on death row in Texas.
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7.0/10274 votes#5 - Intended Evil
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 6/26/2018
After shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new lover, Charles Thompson is charged with manslaughter -- until his ex dies due to a hospital error.
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6.9/10242 votes#6 - Declared Competent
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/3/2018
No one -- including David Lewis himself -- disputes that he committed murder. But Lewis's mental fitness remains in doubt despite his death sentence.
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7.0/10261 votes#7 - Family Affair
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/10/2018
High on a drug that fuels his paranoia, Deandra Buchanan fatally shoots his aunt, stepfather and girlfriend -- a crime he claims he can't recall.
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7.0/10239 votes#8 - Hunted
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 7/17/2018
Robert Shafer and a friend target a same-sex couple in a robbery, but their crime spins out of control into kidnapping and double murder.
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7.3/10244 votes#9 - Living with the Consequences
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 7/24/2018
Teenage drug abuser Joshua Nelson murders a friend in cold blood to steal his car, but other shocking motivations for the crime emerge at his trial.
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6.8/10221 votes#10 - A Matter of Life and Death
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 7/31/2018
Convicted murderer Wayne Doty admits his guilt but requests that his execution be carried out by electric chair, a method no longer used in Florida.
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Death row inmates convicted of capital murder give a firsthand account of their crimes in this documentary series.
Genres:DocumentaryCrime
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Means to an End" is the best rated episode of "I Am a Killer" season 1. It scored 7.2/10 based on 470 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/29/2018. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Killer in the Eyes of the Law".